After the police arrested five men in the West Midlands on claims of terrorism offences, an army bomb disposal team was called to the Lee Bank area of Birmingham as a precaution. Two men aged 32, and 37, were held in Stoke, two others aged 18 and 24, were arrested at their homes in Birminghan and another aged 28, was detained at a different area of the Birmingham.
A spokesperson said, "Police are searching a number of properties in the Stoke and Birmingham areas as part of the investigation; these searches are on-going. The arrests were intelligence-led and part of an on-going investigation."
